Freight-car.



Patented June 20,1916.

N. HALVERSON & D. SHUTTER.

FREIGHT CAR;

APPLICATION FILED JULY I6. 1915.

FREIGHT-GAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June so, 1916.

Application filed 11113716, 1915; Serial No. 40,256.

To all whom it may concern Be it known-that we, NELS l-lALvnRsoN and DESTEN SHUTTER, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Beloit, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Freight-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway cars and particularly to freight cars, the said invention relating especially to the doors or 010- sures for the sides of the car.

An object of this invention is to provide means for mounting the door so that it'will pivot or swing in a vertical plane and parallel with the sides of the car; means being provided for lifting each door on its pivot to open the closure and for holding it in open position, until released by an operator.

A further object of this invention is to provide a door pivoted in the manner stated having means for holding it in closed position and furthermore, to provide novel means for exerting a tension or pressure on the door and for holding it rigid when the door is not sealed. 7

With the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, ref erence will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote correspond ing parts in the several views, and in which Figure l'illustrates a view in elevation of a fragment of the car body with doors embodying the invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 illustrates a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 illustrates a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 4E; and Fig. 4 illustrates a sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

In these drawings 5 denotes the car body and 6 and 7 the doors which guard openings in the body, each of said doors having a plate 8 secured to it at its upper corner, the said plate having an integral bolt or pivot 9 extending through a thimble or collar 10 which is seated in the side of the car body 5, and in which the pivot or bolt partially rotates. On the inside of the car body, an arm 11 is mounted on each pivot or bolt 9 and said arm is carried or oscillated as the bolt or pivot partially rotates and the outer end of the arm 11 has an anti-friction roller 12 which rides on a segmental plate 13 secured by the bolts 14- and spacing collars 15 to the inner side of the car body. The segmental plate, therefore, constitutes a track on which the anti-friction roller runs and as the arm is mounted on the bolt or pivot, the tension or pressure incident to the engagement of the anti-friction roller with the segmental plate has a tendency to retain the Divot against movement longitudinally of the bearing or collar and this results in preventing movement 'of the pivot of the door and consequently serves to retain the door in closed position, even though it is not sealed. A nut 16 on the end of the bolt or pivot holds the parts in assembled positions.

The outer surface of each door is pro vided with a plate 17 having a bearing 18 for the latch 19, one end of each latch eX- tending at an angle as shown at 20 and projecting into a slot 21 formed in the side of the car body, the said slot having facing plates 22 and 23 which prevent undue wear on the material of which the car body is formed. The end of the latch opposite the end 20 extends at an angle to the main portion, as shown at 241, and said portion 24; lies between two cars 25 and 26 on a plate 27, which is secured to the side of the car body when the latch is in position to lock the door and the said extension 24: is held be tween the ears 25 and 26 by a pin 28 which extends through apertures 29 in the said cars. It will be seen from the foregoing that when each latch is in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 1, the angular extension 20 projecting into the slots of the car body will prevent movement of the door on its pivot. As a. further means for holding the doors in proper position, cleats 30 and 31 are secured to the outer surface of the body and the doors pass back of said cleats when they swing to closed positions and, as stated, the cleats aid in retaining the doors against movement.

As a means for swinging the doors on their pivots, each door has a plate 32 to which a coupling 33 of a cable 34 is pivoted, the said cable 34 being guided over pulleys 35 and 36 mounted on studs 37 and 38 respectively, extending from the side of the car body and said cable furthermore projects through an opening 39 in the side of the car body to the interior thereof, so that it may be wound on a drum 40 stationed within the car body, which drum has a ratchet wheel 41 which is engaged by a dog 42 for retaining the drum at difi'erent positions of adjustment and a shaft 43 of the drum extends through the car body and is provided with a crank 44. The lower end of each crank is recessed as shown at 45 and a handle46 mountedon a pivot may be moved from the full line position to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2, when the crank is to be manipulated for winding the cable on the drum or for controlling the drum when'the cable is unwound. By reason of the fact that the handle is bolted into the crank in the manner shown, there is no projection at the side of the car which would prove objectionable.

It is believed that the manner of assembling the parts of the apparatus are sufficiently illustrated and that the illustration .with the foregoing description will enable one skilled in the art to practice the invention for the description of the operation of the several elements has been given in connection with the description of the elements themselves, and a rsum of said operation is believed to be unnecessary.

We claim:

1. In a freight car, a body, doors for closing an opening in the body, plates secured to each door near its corner, each plate having a pivot projecting inwardly, said body of the car having. apertures through which the pivots project, a segmental plate secured interiorly of the car near each door, an arm on the pivot of each door, and a member 011 each arm bearing against the segmental plates as and for the purpose described.

2. In a freight car, a body, doors for closing an opening in the body, plates secured to each door near its corner, each plate having a pivot projecting inwardly, said body of the car having apertures through which the pivots project, a segmental plate secured interiorly of the car near each door, an arm on the pivot of each door, a member 011 each arm bearing against the segmental plates, and flexible means for swinging each door vertically to open the same and for suspending the said door in its open position.

In testimony whereof, we hereunto aflix our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

NELS HALVERSON. DESTEN SHUTTER. Witnesses:

OWEN RrrLAND, RICHARD RITLAND.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five ceit: each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C. 

